Delighted commuters returning to Hoboken yesterday evening from work in Manhattan said the PATH train worked “flawlessly” on its first day back after Hurricane Sandy.

PATH service between Hoboken and 33rd Street in Manhattan resumed on a limited schedule at 5 a.m. yesterday. This was the first time PATH trains have been in service at Hoboken Terminal since Hurricane Sandy flooded the station on Oct. 29.

“It’s flawless,” Hoboken resident Kathleen Kenny, who works in private equity in Midtown Manhattan, said of the restored service last night. “It makes all the difference.”

Port Authority officials say they expect to restore round-the-clock service by year’s end.

Like all other 13 PATH stations that are back in service, trains from Hoboken to 33rd Street are operating only between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. seven days a week.

Service is now back on three of PATH’s four regular lines: Journal Square to 33rd Street, Hoboken to 33rd Street, and Newark to the World Trade Center.

Resumption of direct service between Hoboken and the World Trade Center remains several weeks away pending ongoing work and replacement of badly damaged signal equipment, the Port Authority said.

Dru Cracchiolo, 28, of Hoboken, who operates a physiotherapy office in Manhattan, has been taking the NJ Transit 126 bus line to the Big Apple since Sandy, but said it was no substitute for the PATH train.